Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.

Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes -— skills the students have already mastered ...

Children who attend preschool do better in kindergarten than those who stay at home with their parents or relatives, according to a national report. The federal data, which focused on children who ...

Starting Kindergarten is a major milestone on a student's academic path, but not all students have an equal starting point. Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would assess students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an ...